Knowledge Is Essential To Freedom.

I Am A Living Member Of The Great Family Of All Souls; And I Cannot Improve Or Suffer Myself, Without Diffusing Good Or Evil Around Me Through An Ever-enlarging Sphere. I Belong To This Family. I Am Bound To It By Vital Bonds.

Every Man Is A Volume If You Know How To Read Him.

Let Every Man, If Possible, Gather Some Good Books Under His Roof.

It Is Chiefly Through Books That We Enjoy Intercourse With The Superior Minds, And These Invaluable Means Of Communication Are In Reach Of All. In The Best Books, Great Men Talk To Us, Give Us Their Most Precious Thoughts, And Pour Their Souls Into Ours. God Be Thanked For Books. They Are The Voices Of The Distant And The Dead, And Make Us Heirs Of The Spiritual Life Of Past Ages. Books Are True Levellers. They Give To All, Who Faithfully Use Them, The Society, The Spiritual Presence Of The Best And Greatest Of Our Race.

The Chief Evil Of War Is More Evil. War Is The Concentration Of All Human Crimes. Here Is Its Distinguishing, Accursed Brand. Under Its Standard Gather Violence, Malignity, Rage, Fraud, Perfidy, Rapacity, And Lust. If It Only Slew Man, It Would Do Little. It Turns Man Into A Beast Of Prey.